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Racial Profiling and the Loss of Black Boyhood
Racial profiling continues to be a problem for Black and Brown people. Congress can and must address this issue and one way to do that is to pass the End Racial Profiling Act.
Read MoreOlympics to Finally Give Sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos Their Props by Inducting Them Into Hall of Fame
51 year after their expulsion from the 1968 games, the US Olympic Hall of Fame is welcoming Tommie Smith and John Carlos into its ranks.
Read MoreMy father was IBM’s first black software engineer. The racism he fought persists in the high-tech world today
Stanley W Ford was hired in 1946 as a software engineer at IBM. When his son Clyde followed in his footsteps more than twenty years later, the same mentality that had supported “eugenics, Nazism and apartheid”was
and still is prevalent in the high field today.
How For-Profit Colleges Have Targeted and Taken Advantage of Black Students
Predatory lending by for-profit-colleges target black students resulting in 78% of students with educational loan debts.
Read MoreThe Lost Promise of Reconstruction
Eric Foner draws parallels between our tense political climate and the end of the Reconstruction Age, overviewing the backward steps our country has taken as we move further from the promises of Reconstruction.
Read More“Christian Race” Venue Won’t Do Mixed Race Weddings
An event venue employee saying they won’t host mixed race or gay weddings because of her Christian religious beliefs has gone viral, sparking an uproar on social media.
Read MoreABHM Welcomes Its New President and CEO on 9/3/19!
Milwaukee, WI — The Dr. James Cameron Legacy Foundation is pleased to announce that Dr. Robert “Bert” Davis has been selected as the new President and CEO of America’s Black Holocaust Museum. He will be stepping into his new role on Tuesday, September 3, 2019. Dr. Davis assumes leadership on the eve of the re-opening…
Read MoreFighting Racism…Especially Where We Don’t Realize It Exists
In his new book, award-winning author Ibram X. Kendi “pushes those of us who believe we are not racists to become something else: antiracists, who support ideas and policies affirming that “the racial groups are equals in all their apparent differences — that there is nothing right or wrong with any racial group.” A book review by historian Jeffrey C, Stewart.
Read MoreByron Allen on the 400th Anniversary Of Slavery In America
Reconstruction law meant to protect civil rights of black businesses is being challenged by Trump DOJ in the Supreme Court.
Read MoreBlack Rag Dolls Designed to Be Abused Pulled From Store Shelves in New Jersey
Learn how to physically abuse children early by practicing on a Black Rag Doll.
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